A place for me to work stuff out and to post things that interest me.
Most of us can, if we choose,
make this world either a palace or a prison.
~Lord Avebury
I choose a palace.
~TKF
Do not let your fire go out,
spark by irreplaceable spark,
in the hopeless swamps of the approximate,
the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish,
in lonely frustration for the life you deserved,
but have never been able to reach.
Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won.
It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
~Ayn Rand
The democratic society's mythology of equality with its
attendant erasure of difference is an impossibility
in an actual, lived sense.
Therefore, according to this view, this
imaginary erasure cannot achieve an
actual democracy, because a sense of
community can only come with the recognition of difference.
~Slavoj Zizek, as paraphrased by Catherine M. Soussloff
Links!
A brand new link! Check it out!
deviantART
I thought the place was very cool. Oh, and all you Alias fans, you can find a very nice wallpaper there--
or rather, here--and a gorgeous Evanescence one, too!
Watcher's Diary
Slayage; The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies
Convert just about anything
Comes in really handy when you want to convert fahrenheit to celcius and vice versa!
Links to 100s of free calculators online
Everything from your due date to how much a house payment would be to a regular calculator
Reference Guide to Chicago Manual of Style
Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Atlas & Almanac
Quotation Search Engine
Complete HTML True Color Chart
Epicurious Recipes
Inn Recipes; Recipes for all Occasions
JobStar-Resumes & Cover Letters Advice
Overstock.com: Up to 80% off most items
Ediblenature.com
Things My Girlfriend & I Have Argued About
(Trust me--you'll be laughing outloud!)
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Beyond the Invisible
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The tale of the world is like a tree.
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Sturdily rooted in the past, the tale's branches spread out through the days that come. The many stories that make up its substance
unfold from bud to leaf to dry memory and back again, event connecting event like the threadwork of a spider's web, so that each creature of the world plays its part, understanding only aspects of the overall narrative, and perceiving, each with its particular talents, only glimpses
of the Great Mystery that underlies it all.
~Charles de Lint, Moonheart
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Thursday, December 22, 2005
Not exactly Rockwellian
It'll be a nice Christmas. I'm spending it with a man I love dearly who loves me and shows/tells how much with gratifying frequency. His boys will probably be able to join us and having them for both Thanksgiving and Christmas this year--that in itself is a wonderful gift! Finally, I'm working this year and no matter how much I might not be thrilled with my job, I'm very glad that I can get Jerry and the kids something.
However...
I bought flowers and a card for my grandmother and Daniel and I drove over to see her today. As I was waiting for the elevator, I saw her name on the board that lists residents that are at the hospital. Turned out that my grandmother was in the hospital for over a week and now she's in a nursing home somewhere. The woman in the office didn't know where. Obviously, my "family" (and I use that term very loosely) didn't feel I needed to know. I've known for a while that as far as they are concerned, my sister and I don't exist, but every time it's thrust into my face like this, it hurts all over again.
SIGH
Screw them, right? I'll have a good Christmas, anyway, with people who love me. I just need to shake off the blahs. I'm worried about my grandmother, but she's supposed to be home tomorrow, so I hope to see her sometime in the next couple of days. As for my "family" (henceforth known as "Some People Who Happen To Share My DNA"), every one of them can go to hell.
3:14 PM
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